http://www.madprime.org/articles/tag/vocabulary en-us 40 <p>Here is a short list of some cool words. If you have a cool word, add it with a comment (make say what it means and why it is cool)!</p> <p>crapulent / crapulence</p> <ul> <li>definition: sick due to excessive eating or alcohol, excessively drunk</li> <li>why it's cool: this should be obvious</li> </ul> <p>pulchritude</p> <ul> <li>definition: beauty</li> <li>why it's cool: ugliest word for beauty I've ever heard</li> </ul> <p>chaotropic</p> <ul> <li>definition: disrupts the structure of proteins and/or DNA, denaturing them</li> <li>why it's cool: sounds bad ass</li> </ul> <p>UPDATE 7/8:</p> <p>callipygian</p> <ul> <li>definition: having well-shaped buttocks</li> <li>why it's cool: fancy-ass ass-fancy</li> </ul> Thu, 03 Jul 2008 00:00:00 +0100 urn:uuid:1d4282e4-2e1f-488a-a90c-39a63856d36f Madeleine Ball http://www.madprime.org/articles/2008/07/03/cool-words vocabulary random